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keyword "heart" title "waiting for god"
When Andre Roussimoff’s eyes opened again, he was in the back of a truck in the fields of France, just like when he was young, even though even then he had not been small. He’d been Andre The Gia...
key word "witness" title "in search of a forever home"
After five years as an alien abductee, I’ve a lot more sympathy for house-pets, I’ll give you that much for free. When I went months without seeing another person, just the big ugly things that w...
key word "phantom" title "grounded"
They said it was the most humane way they had to “deal” with us but some days, I’m not so sure. I mean, I’m glad they didn’t kill me. I’m glad I’m not a guinea pig locked up in some laboratory so...
key word "vision" title "manufacturing intent"
When they announced they’d finally cracked universal translation technology, as had been predicted for decades in pulp science-fiction, near and far the whole Earth rejoiced. Finally, they said, ...
key word "bright" title "symbiosis"
It’s a mutually-beneficial arrangement for both sides or, to state it more honestly, for the two of the sides that have any say in the matter, anyway. That’s the whole point of making big money. ...
key word "inundated" title "oil can"
What do you do when you find that you’ve been rusted into place? What do you do when you’ve lost so much of yourself you don’t even know who you are anymore? Piece by piece replaced, in big chunk...
key word "spring" title "springs eternal"
We have this thing broken in our minds, as women and men, where when things become good, something subconscious starts to assume this is just the way that it is now. The good times will continue ...
keyword "friction" title "the night the horrors came"
They ripped one of my arms off, the monsters, and all I could do was stand there, frozen in place, unable to even scream my shock and pain. Loping squishy things, the howling shambling sacs of me...
keyword "nest" title "N.E.S.T. Error Message"
Hello. Welcome to N.E.S.T. Natal Emulation-Simulation Therapy. If you are reading this, there has been an interruption in your simulation cycle. Do not be alarmed, the interruptions are brief and...
theme word "playing" title "apocalypse then"
When the zombies finally arrived, it turned out the movies got a few things right and a lot more wrong. Yes, zombies are the animated dead and yes, they crave the flesh of the living but beyond t...
theme word "future" title "what the future may hold"
My father met a lot of people for a man who never lived anywhere other than Little Falls. Dad possessed more than one lifetime’s worth of stories and he told the hell out of them. He assumed, for...
keyword "singing" title "finding your voice"
She always called it a curse, even though it was all caused by a small benign tumor in her brain. She wondered aloud if she’d run afoul of Romani travelers or Vodou practitioners enough times to ...
keyword "spirit" title "like a natural wolfman
So much of my writing starts by mishearing something and then the misunderstanding turns out to be more interesting than the original intent. I’ve written more than four hundred parody songs, sit...
keyword "right" title "quantum immortality"
You wake up knowing you died yesterday yet here you are, safe in bed. This isn’t the first time, it’s happened often enough to lose count, dead but alive, no one else able to recall a thing. You ...
keyword "warning" title "making history"
His future mother-in-law called him “Jimmy”, even though his given name was James Sheng and nearly everyone since junior high just called him “Jim”. Qingzhao’s mother was a tiny tanned tin tyrant...
keyword "reticent" title "of a feather"
She was reticent to talk about it with her family or her friends but she knew she’d have to break it off with him. They’d met when he was working the bird desk at the biggest pet store in the are...
keyword "training" title "outshined"
Proxima and Rigil, two of the sisters Centauri, two of the closest stars to our very own sun, they like to watch us from afar sometimes, up there in the night sky. It isn’t night to them, of cour...
keyword "Funambulist" title "blinking lights (for you)"
Here we are in the limbo between our flights that we call Layover, neither here nor there but more or less exactly where you’re supposed to be for now. Here we are in San Francisco and yet n...
keyword "initiate" title "going through the process"
They told us that it was our choice, of course, when we were kids. The government had scanned our genes and said we had the potential to manifest our superhuman abilities if we were able to expos...
theme "secret" title "untethered moon"
There are the things in your life you regret then there are the things in your life that you miss and you rue and you feel bad about but you don’t exactly regret them. The things you learned from...
writing prompt: the painting "nighthawks"
Everyone talks a big game about the value of a home-cooked meal, he thought to himself as he drank his coffee alone in an almost-empty restaurant, unless they’re the one who has to cook it. When ...
writing prompt: prickly, title: sabra
The prickly pear received its name because its fruit, while thorny on the outside, contains a soft sweet fruit once you get beneath its well-protected skin. The people there who identify as Israe...
writing prompt: dancing, title: a brief introduction to Kuflexi
It was difficult enough, as a newly faster-than-light humanity made contact with the extra-solar races, to figure out how to translate each of their written and spoken languages back and forth to...
writing prompt: silence. title: all that glitters
She awoke as she did every weekday, three-fourteen in the morning, one minute before her alarm, just enough time to prepare herself and then commute. “Payroll at four,” she thought, “one more shi...
Book Description
Wherein the typist shares flash fiction experiments from writing groups.
